Alive as Life. On the Russian Language

Many readers become familiar with the works of Chukovsky in childhood, memorizing his poems for life, but often that acquaintance ends there. Meanwhile, the beloved classic of children's literature was also a critic, translator, prose writer, linguist, literary scholar, and memoirist... Chukovsky the translator gifted the Russian reader a whole library of works of English and American literature, Chukovsky the memoirist - a magnificent gallery of portraits of his contemporaries, which are rightly considered some of the best examples of memoir prose of the twentieth century, Chukovsky the researcher - famous books about the Russian language, highly praised by specialists and beloved by the widest audience for many decades. One of these books is "Alive as Life," in which the author, without playing with the reader in any way, easily and engagingly tells through vivid examples what a complex, interesting, and wisely structured self-regulating system the Russian language is.